1st Edition
Empire, Politics and the Creation of the 1935 India Act Last Act of the Raj
By Andrew Muldoon
Copyright 2009
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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The 1935 Government of India Act was arguably the most significant turning point in the history of the British administration in India. The intent of the Act, a proposal for an Indian federation, was the continuation of British control of India, and the deflection of the challenge to the Raj posed by Gandhi, Nehru and the nationalist movement. This book seeks to understand why British... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 India Interpreted and Imagined: Culture, Intelligence and Policy-making in the Late-Colonial State; Chapter 2 The heart mesmerizes the head: Lord Irwin and the Nationalists, 1926–1931; Chapter 3 The Problem of Reliable Information: British-Indian Contacts in 1931 and 1932; Chapter 4 Watching Gandhi: Predicting Indian Political Behavior, 1933–1935; Chapter 5 Preventing an unholy row: Indian Reform, Commercial Policy and Lancashire, 1933–1935; Chapter 6 The Men Who Know: Authority, Policy and the Future of the Empire in the Conservative Party; Chapter 7 Provinces, Princes and Predictions: The Fate of the 1935 India Act; conclusion Conclusion;
Biography
Dr Andrew Muldoon of Metropolitan State College of Denver, USA
’The volume impressively brings a keen appreciation of British domestic politics to the study of constitutional reform in India.’ American Historical Review
